The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) has written to the Commissioner & Secretary Higher and Technical Education Government of Nagaland demanding for the immediate detachment of Asst. Professors and Assoc. Professors attached in Government Colleges and Higher Education Department. The Union also expressed concern to the Department for randomly introducing the system of ‘Attachment Policy’ year after year, which hampered the students and college fraternity.

In a letter issued on September 16, the Union acknowledged the department and state government’s commitment to improve quality of higher education and promote academic reforms, demonstrated by the establishment of 17 government colleges across the state. These institutes provide the students a goal for more meaningful and satisfying lives and work roles and enable economic independence.

“However, the union is anguished and insatiate to witness the authority concerned for randomly introducing the system of ‘Attachment Policy’ year after year, when the union always stood against such practice that hampered the students and college fraternity. It is ascertain that government colleges in Nagaland continue to suffer with shortage of teachers yet the department is least concern and never serious about the critical grievances being faced by the students. This comes at a crucial juncture as Higher education is in the process of fully implementing the New Education Policy 2020, a transition that demands urgent requirement of more teaching faculty,” stated the ANSCU.

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The Union viewed that the policy of attachment arrangement under the higher education and government colleges jeopardizes the smooth functioning of the already understaffed colleges, which directly handicap the teaching learning process of the student’s fraternity.

Therefore, it appealed the Department to immediately disengage all the attached teachers and assign them to their respective posted institutions.

“Failing to address this grave concern on priority will only invite confrontation from the students’ community. The union further demands for necessary post creation and recruitment through NPSC, to ensure proper functioning of all the institutions under higher education,” asserted the ANCSU.